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Latest Intel CPUs got 1-3% faster, not 10%. In any case, that is irrelevant as 14nm and ipc are pretty much maxed out, and from this point on, this is it. Unle
by quickben 9y ago
Latest Intel CPUs got 1-3% faster, not 10%.
In any case, that is irrelevant as 14nm and ipc are pretty much maxed out, and from this point on, this is it. Unless CPUs move away from silicone, this is as fast as it gets (save for adding cores to the problem).
- noir_lord 9y agoYes and no, I built a Ryzen 1700 desktop for work, that processor cost about the same as the K i5 I bought a few years ago (adjusting for the pound cratering). On multithreaded workloads that I care about its not just a little faster, it's a lot faster. There is still a lot of fruit to be had in that direction I think and that's before you consider the other areas left for performance improvement. Of course for some workloads/people they are already butting up against a different cost/benefit and they do care about ekeing every cycle out the processor but for me it hardly matters. My desktop at work runs a development version of our main system faster under vagrant than it runs in production since I've got more RAM and a machine with twice as many cores. It's a strange market when that happens..
- quickben 9y ago:) I'm in the same boat. Built a 1700x with 32gb for my home workstation. Feels lot faster than the 4670k it replaced. I suspect most of that is the ddr4 + another 4 cores + nvme , rather than IPC gains. I like the direction the CPUs moved, although after 7nm in few years, they'll have to redesign a lot more than CPUs to get anything substantial out of it. We'll see, exciting times otherwise.